Hong Kong Regulations

TRADE MARKS RULES - RULE 84

Notification and intervention

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

(1) When an application is made in accordance with rule 81, 82 or 83, the
Registrar shall send written notice thereof to the registered proprietor and
to each registered user (not being the applicant), and shall advertise the
application in the Gazette.

(2) If the registered proprietor, a registered user or any other interested
person intends to intervene in the proceedings he shall give notice within 2
months from the date of publication of the advertisement by filing Form TM-No.
49 together with a statement of the grounds of his intervention.

(3) The Registrar shall send a copy of the notice and the statement referred
to in subrule (2) to the applicant, the registered proprietor, each registered
user whose registration is the subject of the application and any other person
who intervenes.

(4) Any of the persons mentioned in subrule (3) may, within such time or times
as the Registrar may appoint, file evidence in support of his case.

(5) After giving such persons the opportunity of being heard the Registrar may
accept or refuse the application or accept it subject to any conditions,
amendments, modifications or limitations which he may think right to impose.
(Enacted 1992)